The Humanization of Learning Mission is directed toward developing program alternatives which would accept as critical priorities for schooling the development of self awareness, empathic understanding, and the enhancement of social responsibility. (Author)

Bloom discusses mastery learning and automaticity. Automaticity involves a skill that is so overlearned that it becomes almost automatic. Automaticity is central to the work of talented individuals but requires tremendous time to develop and maintain. (KS)

This paper explores the issue of how vocational education and training (VET) is actually used in the labour market, in particular the match between what people study and the jobs they get. This match is pretty poor in most occupational groups with the exception of the trades. However, the paper concludes that the mismatch reflects the generic…

The purpose of this article is to explore the development of qualifications frameworks as a key element in the Bologna Process, which aims to develop a European Higher Education Area by 2010. By setting up descriptors of learning outcomes, a European qualifications framework is intended as an instrument that enables Europe to coordinate and…

This study uses the "logic" of emergence to rethink the practice and purposes of modern Western schooling which, conventionally, is organized around a representational epistemology and aims to enculture the student into a particular way of being. The idea of "planned enculturation" is, however, problematic for contemporary multicultural societies…

This study is a secondary analysis of data from the 1995 administration of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The purpose is to compare the breadth, depth, and recurrence of the typical physics curriculum in the United States with the typical curricula in different countries and to determine whether there are…

In New Zealand the polytechnic sector embraces a range of post-compulsory education fields. Fields as diverse as nursing, business, social work and English as a Second Language (ESL) may co-exist on polytechnic campuses and are subject to similar curriculum documentation processes. The common competency-based framework and discourse of such…

The essential nature of public school student performance on standardized examinations is becoming increasingly apparent. As schools across the nation are examined more closely based on the science achievement of students, career and technical education programs will be expected to contribute to this effort. Through the lens of Ajzen and Madden's…

As part of a critical analysis of Paulo Freire's work, this paper argues that, Freire's critical, liberatory pedagogy as conceived in "Education as the Practice of Freedom" (P. Freire, 1982a), coherently systematized in "Extension or Communication" (P. Freire, 1982b) and carried out through "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" (P. Freire, 1974) into his…

Several large-scale surveys of middle-grade elementary pupils revealed that of the language arts, only reading and spelling are liked and handwriting and language are intensely disliked. (JH)

At the end of the first nine months of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) project to revise and field test the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) curriculum materials, activities are proceeding on four fronts. A coding of 61 curriculum units on a lesson-by-lesson basis has been completed and a content analysis is now being carried…

This paper lists the components of a curriculum theory, examines the constraints on theory building, and suggests several points at which the domain of curriculum research might be distinguished from learning and instruction. (Author/LLR)

This issue of "Educational Comment" is concerned with curriculum courses in pre- or in-service programs for teachers, considered from the perspective of the instructor of these courses, and with general problems of curriculum research and personnel. It contains seven papers originally presented at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum…

This 2-volume document reports on a study to (1) explore the use of network analysis as a means of describing and comparing selected instances of the curriculum change process, (2) compare the selected instances with each other, and (3) compare five conceptualizations of the change process when applied to specific change situations. (Considerable…

This article proposes a new look at an old dispute in the area of curriculum theory, that of logical and psychological organization. First, erroneous assumptions about both of these forms of organization are examined. Unwarranted associations with the immaturity-maturity continuum, the process-product distinction, and the intellectual-practical…